All I Want for Christmas is Zoo

My big idea for Covid Chrismas was to spend that morning at the Central Park Zoo BUT Christmas itself was very windy and rainy, so I went down to the zoo on the 26th instead. I got there right when it opened. It is not a big zoo, and even smaller when a few animals weren’t out while I was there. If the Lincoln Park Zoo can be free, I think the Central Park Zoo should be free, too. Anyway. Glad I went, glad I brought my 90mm lens. They have two extremely lively red pandas there and some very big snow leopards and a very stinky penguin house. And there’s a very cool great big snow monkey habitat…too bad only two monkeys were out enjoying it on this visit. Oh! And there’s a decent children’s zoo that even adults can go into. The sheeps and goats love those pellets!

Post zoo I did some park walking, saw that the Trumps have a bench? Wonder if they’ll spend much time sitting there come late January. Went and found the part of the fence with the leopards on the other side of it. Then I did midtown walking and wound up at Tacos No 1 for the first time since … I mean who even knows. May have been more than a year? Hadn’t had a taco that hit so nice in a while.